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NJT owns the PVL to Woodbine yard, MTA has the Piermont and NS has rights to operate on it and are responsible to maintain.
Metro-North's responsibility on the PVL are only the three stations.

Hatch and Bailey - Conrail would go up to New Canaan, shove the car(s) in, run around in the station and come back to Stam

The "4th" track (Track 3) was removed due to "costs" CDOT was looking for reimbursement for changing out the stick rail to welded rail on track 3 between New Haven and Devon, including replacement of all the siding switches and CONRAIL wasn't buying into the costs. So, CDOT (Owne...

NJT was compliant with all aspects of the PTC Mandate, including the short lines. The short lines were only required to be CSS/ATC/LSL compliant by 12/31/20 as long as they were within the CFR requirement applicable to the extension. They were, thus NJT was within the regs. The conditions were all m...

Through the years I heard about the Western Division, from Frank Doyle and Tim Sweeny.

Should they wait to build a yard until the Gateway is done? There are ways to improve travel time into Secaucus/NYP currently and reduce the amount of Deadhead travel. Also if you haven't been west on the Tier lately there is a growing market from Port Jervis to Calicoon which can bring reverse week...

Believe any change to an existing platform footprint or building a new platform requires conforming to all ADA requirements.

Three weekend outages are also planned for Tie replacements (portions of Moodna, OW Bridge-West Hall) and Switch replacement at CP Hall.

Probably will be Starting 11/6-11/8, 11/13-11/15, 11/20-11/22

Bus Ops between Harriman and Port Jervis

NJT track department along with Metro-North Track department have been changing out the stick rail on tracks 1 & 2. They are also replacing ties and surfacing. Starting 10/26/15 off peak bus operations will be substituted for trains originating out of Port Jervis (58,62,64). They will connect wi...

All the Metro-North Vehicles are "M" the only ones that are different are the on-track(non rubber tired) ones thus TC=Track Car

As for the new trains - 47 & 49 the RT17 stop was added after the public schedule was published.

The Eastbound signal at Sparrow currently is "Automatic" The new signal which will be east of the existing signal will be a holding signal which the NJT dispatcher will control so if a train was coming out of the yard and is lined out to track 2,this signal will protect that move. No the n...

Yes it is the best job on the RR because of the people and Railroads I get to deal with.

Central Valley/Secaucus Jct,

When the Cab Signal system gets cut in the trains will need to turn at Howells, otherwise they will be running on a restricting back to Hall from Middletown.

Rock Slope was completed during the first weekend outage. The following weekend outages are for track department installing new Insulated Joints for the new signal system and welding the joints. Should be completed this weekend.

Anybody have any pictures of the 225 in transit?